IVIV (1) Uphill and invisible p4

[Doug Millison]

It takes me back to GR, too, with its depiction of the oil beneath the  
surface of the earth.

alice:
Glad you mentioned this little passage. It stuck out as I was reading  
and re-reading and I did get a very sad feeling from it. The use of  
the term "business" here, as in money-business is conflated with  
sexual or procreation-business and this struck me as an echo of the  
sad theme of this work. Also, as the crew are working on oil tankers  
and oil is destroying the environment of the wild life and their  
habitat, it seems sad that the firts major machine of industrial- 
consumer capitalism, that automobile that runs down Myrtle, the Virgin  
Flower of the Wastland or Valley of Ashes in Fitzgerald's Gatsby,  
communicates with the men sliding along on the oily sea. The exotic  
caosts are as the dodo.